“It’s very unusual. It’s shoplifting to the max,” said Marcia Harnden, a police spokeswoman in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue.

Police may check flea markets and online auction sites, Harnden said, “but if I were the consumer, I’d be very leery about buying undergarments from a disreputable source.”

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The world-famous San Diego Zoo turned into a steamy sex den over the weekend when two pandas – usually shy when it comes to getting together while in captivity – mated an astounding three times in one day.

Gao Gao, an 11-year-old male giant panda who recently arrived from China, hooked up with Bai Yun, the zoo’s resident female panda. “We just couldn’t believe that this could come off so quickly,” said Don Lindburg, head of the zoo’s panda team. “I am beyond surprised.”

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A library is for learning, not for lusting.

That’s the battle cry of a dozen women staffers at the Minneapolis Public Library who want $450,000 in damages apiece for having to put up with perverts they say regularly surf for porn on the library computers.

Katherine “Kit” Hadley and her workers charge in a suit against the library that several regulars “monopolize the computers to view pornography, swear at the staff, threaten them” and sometimes even masturbate.

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Taffy the dog finally returned home this week – after seven months.

“When I went out to do the chores, he was standing on the deck waiting for me, just like he always did,” Betty Jordt of Le Mars, Iowa, said of her beloved Lab mix.

“I thought, ‘It can’t be Taffy; it can’t be.’ But as I got closer, he looked up at me as if, ‘I waited for you.’ ”